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Cpd: 14.1% of Filipinos Still Use Traditional Family Planning

About 14.1 percent of Filipinos still rely on traditional family planning methods such as withdrawal and the calendar method despite the steady rise in modern contraceptive use, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) said Thursday. Mylin Mirasol Quiray, chief of the CPD Information Management and Communications Division, said the share of traditional-method users declined from 16.5 percent in 2022 but remained significant.

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Published at 2026-09-18 by Dimitri Mostrey

Categories : Culture, Health, People

Tags: Health, childbirth, children, family

Being Visibly Intoxicated Does Not Prove Poll Liquor Ban Violation

The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that appearing intoxicated, by itself, is insufficient to prove a violation of the election liquor ban. The high tribunal made this remark on Tuesday as it released a ruling of the Third Division, acquitting Mcgill Esquillo Omandam who was convicted of violating the liquor ban during the 2019 elections.

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Published at 2026-09-16 by Dimitri Mostrey

Categories : Health, Legal

Tags: Supreme Court

The 4 Most Common Types of Coffee Beans and How They Differ

Coffee packs an astounding degree of diversity. The plant grows in over 70 countries, with thousands of varieties categorized into well over a hundred species — new types continue to be discovered to this day. Yet while information like the roast, origin, and flavor notes is what typically ends up on a coffee label, not much attention is drawn to the bean species (except, of course, for arabica beans).

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Published at 2026-01-04 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Food and Dining, Health

Tags: Coffee, farming

Why Risk Injury and Death to Ring in the New Year with Dangerous Fireworks

Despite these risks, fireworks remain deeply woven into the country’s new year traditions, driven by a belief that loud noise scares away bad luck and evil spirits. And every December 31, millions of Filipinos pour into the streets or stay in their backyards and set off a vast assortment of fireworks – many of them illegal and most of them dangerous.

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Published at 2025-12-30 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Recreation

Tags: Fireworks, New Year

LOOK: What It’s Like Visiting a Korean Aesthetic Clinic for the First Time

K-pop, K-food, and K-drama aside, K-beauty also has the country in a chokehold. Many dream of achieving “glass skin,” hoarding Korea’s best skincare products, or copping that dewy “no-makeup makeup look” just like their favorite K-pop idols. So, it only makes sense that a South Korean aesthetic clinic finally landed on Philippine shores!

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Published at 2024-01-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Arts, Health, Technology

Tags: Beautiful, Health, skin

Aspartame: Carcinogenic or Safe?

Aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in various food and beverage products, has been classified by the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) as “possibly carcinogenic”—what does this mean?

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Published at 2023-07-17 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Food and Dining, Health

Tags: aspartame, cancer

‘Jellyfish Season’: Warning to Beachgoers of Swimming in Sea

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Central Visayas (BFAR-7) has advised beachgoers to be wary of jellyfish, especially when swimming in sea waters with high temperature. BFAR-7 director Alan Poquita said hot days during summer, from April to June, could be considered “jellyfish season.”

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Published at 2023-06-29 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Environment, Health, Recreation

Tags: Beach, jellyfish

Philippines Sees Nearly 2,500 Maternal Deaths in 2021: UN Agency

At least 2,478 women died due to childbirth in the Philippines in 2021, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines said Sunday, expressing concern about the rising number of maternal deaths. "In the Philippines, we noticed an increase of maternal deaths during the past years: in 2019, 1,458 women died of maternal causes; this number increased to 2,478 in 2021," UNFPA Philippines said.

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Published at 2023-05-14 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Health, News and Events

Tags: childbirth, women

Mindoro Oil Spill Victims Reach 19,000

Oriental Mindoro residents affected by the oil spill from the tanker Princess Empress have risen to 19,000. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will begin on March 15 a cash-for-work program, in addition to the food relief that is already being distributed, to help affected residents and pump-prime the local economy.

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Published at 2023-03-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Environment, Health

Tags: Mindoro, Program, coral, coral reefs, fishermen, marine, reefs, residents

Heart Center to Rise at Clark Freeport Zone

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved an executive order that will establish an annex of the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) inside the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga. It underscores the need for the PHC to have its presence in Central Luzon to give more Filipinos access to quality health care, particularly those burdened by cardiovascular diseases.

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Published at 2023-03-10 by Puerto Parrot

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27 Million Pinoys Overweight or Obese – Global Pharmaceutical Firm

Around 27 million Filipinos are considered overweight or obese, according to a leading global health care company as World Obesity Day was observed last Saturday. “Obesity is particularly prevalent in the Philippines, where 36.6 percent of individuals aged 20 years or older meet the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index or BMI cutoff points for being overweight or obese,”

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Published at 2023-03-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Society

Tags: Health, obesity

Taiwan Seeks Greater Cooperation with the Philippines on Vegetable Production

Taiwan-based World Vegetable Center (WVC) is looking to boost its cooperation with the Philippines to raise vegetable production and consumption. WVC is a non-profit international institute conducting research and training to raise awareness about the health benefits of vegetables with the goal of alleviating global poverty through strategic interventions.

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Published at 2023-01-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Environment, Health

Tags: Taiwan, Vegetables

PH Consulate in Macau Counters Discriminatory Claims over Daily COVID-19 Tests

The Philippine Consulate General in Macau on Saturday said the daily COVID-19 testing requirement imposed on Filipinos residing there is a preventive measure against the virus and should not be politicized.

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Published at 2022-07-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, News and Events, People

Tags: COVID-19, Health

Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that dominates the market for COVID vaccines in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and Japan, with bilateral agreements for more than six billion doses, is also set to become the main supplier to COVAX, the global vaccine programme to the world’s poorer countries.

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Published at 2021-12-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, Pfizer, vaccine

Palace Exec Proposes Paradigm Shift in Monitoring COVID-19 Cases

Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned.

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Published at 2021-12-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, economy, vaccine